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Usually called Farmington, Miss Porter's was long a finishing school for girls who "came out" rather than went on to college. Today it is better known as New England's female Groton-a rigorous, reticent prep school for rich girls (tuition: $2,700) with rich minds. Steeped in Connecticut charm, it boasts a noted art history department, one teacher for every eight of its 220 girls, and a grade-A milk herd to nourish its grade-A students, who consistently enter Radcliffe, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley...
...voice to drown out the hecklers, eased the tension with a quip: "Now I know how Nixon felt in Caracas. This is my first crisis, but I'm not going to write a book about it." He went on to promise that California state colleges would be tuition-free so long as he was Governor, and as for the parking fee: "When I get back to Sacramento, we'll go over it thoroughly...
Harvard seniors have won 11 of 24 1962-63 Marshall scholarships, providing living expenses and tuition at a British university for at least two years...
...enroll half of them by 1970. California leads the U.S. with 69 (eventually to be 100) such colleges, almost all of them controlled locally on a school-district base, like grade and high schools. They can chop the eventual cost of a B.A. by some $5,000 because tuition is free and the students live at home. Foothill's money comes from its prosperous "college district," a 105-square-mile area that includes Palo Alto and is currently assessed at $512 million. The voters launched Foothill (in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains) with a $10.4 million bond...
Attacking the Winthrop proposal for a single room, board, and tuition charge, Trottenberg said, "The logic of that completely escapes...